January 21, 2015
Dear Mom and Dad,
Well it sounds like you guys had a BLAST this week! LOTS OF
FUNSEEKERS :) I can not believe that Lauren's team did not win! but like dad
said, at least they did not lose! I loved the photos haha the water tornado was
super cool! Bah rich people! ;) J/K that looked like a wicked rock that hit
your windshield, hopefully you can get reimbursed from the car insurance! Lots
of fun though!
SO like I said last week, we are preparing these three kids
for baptisms. Katy was supposed to get baptized last week but we explained that
because her sister did not go to church two weeks ago, she has to wait until
this weekend to get baptized. So Katy decided to wait with her sister! They
have had their interviews and are ready to enter into the water. They will be
baptized on Friday because on Saturday they have a Young Women's activity and
they want to go to that :) its going to super sweet! Katy loves the church and
everything about it as well as her sister! We kind of hit a wall with Nixon
though. His mom got upset that we were trying to baptize him, and so we sat
down and kind of Macheted her haha. She felt bad and said that she would pray
with Nixon to see if this Saturday is the day he should get baptized.
We found this new investigator named Jorge, and he is SUPER
awesome! He loved the church this past weekend and is stoked to go this coming
week! I still have not visited him because the night that Elder Hayes and
Mataalii went to visit him, I was on divisions with Missionaries in my
district, making them feel super good because they brought 11 investigators to
church!! But what was just as cool was that we also brought 11 people to
church! It was super awesome! Sacrament meeting was packed with a huge
attendance of 181 people! I know for back home that is smaller than normal, but
for our little ward here in San Judas that usually has 140, was HUGE! But it
was kind of a disaster after that though because they did the Area Plan for
2015, which first was 2 hours long, and second, they just sat and talked about
baptisms for the dead.... Lot of confused
investigators after that. But we fixed everything haha.
Well President has put the goal of 2000 baptisms this
year!!! If we baptize 167 people every month we will meet this goal! But because
this goal comes from the Lord, so we know we can hit that goal for 2015!! If we
complete it, we will go down to San Juan del Sur, which is the nicest beach
here in Nicaragua !
When we come back here as a family, we will have to go! It's super pretty, from
what I have heard. The only sad thing is that, I go home December 10, so that
means I will work really hard to hit the goal, but never reap the temporal
blessings!!! Spiritual blessings I will be loaded with!!! haha. But as a
companionship we are doing really well! We work with members almost all of the
nights so that we can do divisions and get double the work done.
Well that is my week! I hope you guys have a great week!!
I love you a lot
Elder Naisbitt
